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Meta putting up tents across the US to house AI servers, like ‘a scene out of the movie Mad Max’ — structures take three months to build and use jet engines for power (www.tomshardware.com)
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These "makeshift" structures are housing hardware that costs millions of dollars in total.

"Putting AI servers inside tents, officially called “rapid deployment structures,” is one of the more unique approaches to the AI build-out, Thomas said. They’re certainly not as sturdy as physical buildings made from steel and concrete, with one commenter comparing it to the “classic $10k racing bike with a $9 lock” situation."

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[–] JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch 12 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Are these just industrial chicken coops?

You know, this kind of thing:

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Might be the same structure, but Meta confirms they're doing exactly this:

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg first announced the strategy of pitching tents and filling them with AI servers last year. It seems that he wanted the infrastructure to come online quickly while demand for compute is increasing exponentially.

[–] JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I think you misunderstood, i thought it funny that meta is putting expensive GPUs into what amounts to chicken coops. Not that the article was wrong and there's actual chickens inside